"Letting Spiritual Light Shine Online" - Watcthower.org gets 70,000 hits a day!

by slimboyfat 30 Replies latest jw friends

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  bennyk

  Because they are used to getting away with lying, and it has served them so well in the past.

  I wonder how many hits are from "apostates" seeking hypocrisy and falsehoods, which can be used against the Society.
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  Titus

  Who downloads from www.jw.org on Antarctica? It is also said in YB.
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  OUTLAW

  Estimated number of visits for www.watchtower.org
  21,259 visits per day

  Not even close to 70,000 hits a day..

  To the..

  Watchtower Bullshit and all Talk $ociety..

  ...................... ...OUTLAW
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  spawn

  Here we, from a website analyst.

  Hits don't mean a thing as they are just requests to a server.

  For example the web page is one hit, every image on the page generates a hit so if you have a page with 50 images thats 51 hits for every one view if the same person views the page twice thats a 102 hits for one visitor.

  So do the maths yourself if you want to have a laugh. Just another "we are up our own arse view from the Borg"
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  slimboyfat

  Sorry "hits" was my word. The Yearbook says they have 70,000 "visitors" a day, just to clarify.
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  ColdRedRain

  Not to mention that there are a lot of JWs that use the WT's page as a homepage. The WT's in over it's head.
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  Elsewhere

  As a Sr. Web Developer I have to ask one question: How do they define one "hit"?

  There are three basic definitions:

  1. One Hit = anything that is downloaded from the server. Therefore, each image, script, cookie and piece of text is considered a "hit". This means that one user loading just one page, just one time could result in many hits. Typically about 20 or so. This is the definition used by dishonest site owners and is used to make it appear as though a site is visited by many people, even though it really isn't.
  2. One Hit = One page load. Therefore, if you go a the website and look at 5 pages, or press Refresh 5 times, they will count 5 "hits". Just as the first item above is used by dishonest site owners, this is also dishonest... just not as dishonest... but still dishonest.
  3. One Hit = One Session. Therefore, if you go to a website and browse around for an hour and then leave, that is considered one "hit". This is the gold standard of honest traffic reporting and is used by reputable site owners. Instead of calling it a "hit", it is described as a "visit" or "session".

  The fact they use the word "hit" tells me they are using definition 1 or 2. Most likely #2.

  I can already tell they are fudging the numbers. They say they had 24,000,000 visits over the year and 70,000 "hits" in a day. If you take 24,000,000 and divide it by 365 days, that comes out to 65,753. They are missing almost 5000 "visits" per day.
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  slimboyfat

  Elsewhere sorry my bad. The Yearbooks says 70,000 "daily visitors" not hits.
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  Elsewhere

  Ahhh, Ok! :)
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  cantleave

  The stats don't indicate anything like 70,000 daily visitors. It's strange that they don't use "unique users" which is the stat used if you are trying to attract advertising.